Vocabulary: 父亲南怀瑾
- 片 piān: 片 pian1: disk; sheet片 piàn: 片 pian4: thin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; incomplete; one-sided; classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water; classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc; used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91
- human body
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- success or failure
- best friend
- intimate friend; soul mate
- lit. isn't that a joy? (quote from Confucius); fig. (jocular) extremely; awfully
- to make friends
- creed; article of faith
- 众 Zhòng: 众 Zhong4: abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhong4 yi4 yuan4], House of Representatives众 zhòng: 众 zhong4: (bound form) crowd; multitude; (bound form) many; numerous
- to cover; to comprise; to include
- trade; profession; industry; business
- 广 yǎn: 广 yan3: "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc广 guǎng: 广 guang3: wide; numerous; to spread广 Guǎng: 广 Guang3: surname Guang
- (bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- a long period of separation
- to meet again; to be reunited; reunion
- to occupy; to hold
- (idiom) famous throughout the land; renowned far and wide
- (idiom) childhood friend
- caring; intimate
- 几 jī: 几 ji1: small table几 jī: 几 ji1: (literary) almost几 jǐ: 几 ji3: how many; how much; several; a few
- variation
- disaster; misfortune; calamity
- (particle in old Chinese similar to 啊)
- 福 fú: 福 fu2: good fortune; happiness; luck福 Fú: 福 Fu2: surname Fu; abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]
- whether or not (at the end of a phrase)
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- closely bound up (idiom); intimately related
- rich and powerful
- near; close to; approximately
- pleased
- national strength; situation in a state
- internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad
- (literary, or bound form) to look at
- human life; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- bad luck; misfortune; adversity
- countless; numberless; innumerable
- man-made disaster
- natural disaster
- plaintive; mournful; miserable
- to pass one's days; to scratch out a difficult, meager existence
- political situation